Country France First awarded 1996 | Presented by Académie des Lumières | |
Awarded for Excellence in Francophone cinema Official website academiedeslumieres.com | ||
The Lumières Award (French: Prix Lumières) (sometimes called the Prix Lumière or Lumière Award) is a French film award presented by the Académie des Lumières to honor the best in the French-speaking cinema of the previous year. The awards ceremony is organized by the Académie des Lumières which consists of over 200 representatives of the international press based in Paris. Today it is regarded as one of the most prestigious French film industry awards, equivalent to the Golden Globes Awards presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
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The 21st Lumières Awards ceremony took place on 8 February 2016, at the Espace Pierre Cardin in Paris. Mustang won the award for Best Film.
History
The Lumières Award was initiated in 1995 by French producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier and American journalist and ex-Newsweek's Paris correspondent Edward Behr. Their idea was to replicate the Golden Globes given by the foreign press in Hollywood. The Lumières Award is usually presented a month before César Award, the French national film award.
Directing board
The president of the academy is Grazyna Arata, the vice-presidents are Pauline Guilmot and Denitza Bantcheva, and the general secretary is Michela Secci.